Farming preparations make headway in the DPRK

Wheat and barley sowing begins on the Jangchon Vegetable Farm in Sadong District, Pyongyang. Farmers across the country are now stepping up farming preparations eager to hit the target of grain production for this year.

Statistics say the collection and transportation of manure to the field and other farming preparations are going full steam ahead in the final stage throughout the country and the spring sowing of wheat and barley seeds are at its height.

The farmers in North Hwanghae and Phyongan Provinces registered good results in the collection and transport of manure.

The Jongbang Cooperative Farm in Sariwon City and other farms in Unpha and Suan Counties in North Hwanghae Province collected a large amount of manure in townships while producing as much hukposan fertilizer as possible, exceeding the planned compost production targets.

The farmers on the Osan Cooperative Farm in Jongju City and the Unha Cooperative Farm in Unjon County, North Phyongan Province, positively applied productive methods of compost-making and finished the transportation of the produced compost to rice paddies and dry fields.

Many farms including the Oguk Cooperative Farm in Anak County and the Samjigang Cooperative Farm in Jaeryong County in South Hwanghae Province and the Sinsong Cooperative Farm in Kumya County and the Phungyang Cooperative Farm in Jongphyong County in South Hamgyong Province set the right places for digging fertile soil and increased the operation of transportation means, thereby finishing the carpeting of paddy and dry fields with new fertile soil in a short time.

The farmers in many counties in the west coastal areas including Chongdan and Unnyul counties in South Hwanghae Province have set themselves a goal of finishing spring sowing in a short time and are carrying out farming processes of seed sprouting and rice-seedling bed laying as scheduled.

On the basis of thorough preparation for the farming of earlier crops, they are now sowing seeds of spring wheat and barley as required by the technical specifications.

The farmers in North Hamgyong and Kangwon Provinces and Nampho City have also secured proper amount of materials for making rice seedling beds and seeds of high-yield crop species that suit their specific climate and soil conditions. Efforts have continuously been directed to improving acid soil and cold and humid land.